Hello world!
This week I did something pretty cool to this website: I’ve added proper social media images to all my posts here, so that when posted to somewhere like Mastodon or Discord, it’ll show some information about the post instead of the plain gradient it had before! And since this website is still a static Astro project, all the images are generated at build time & can be cached by CDNs pretty much indefinitely (though I need to actually set that up in Caddy sometime soon). Whether this actually adds any useful information is an exercise left to the reader.
While starting a new project to do with a friend a few days ago, I learnt about the popover and popovertarget attributes in HTML, which basically lets you turn any element into displaying like a dialog over everything else on the page, and you can even toggle it with a button with no JavaScript! Unfortunately as of writing you still do need some JS if you want to position a popover element relative to its trigger (although with a proper bundler, the Floating UI library can get cut down to ~3.5kB (minified + gzip) in it’s most simple usecase, and up to about 6kB with the features to auto update as the screen changes and reposition itself to avoid going offscreen), but there is the CSS anchor positioning proposal. Currently it is only available in Chrome based browsers with an experimental flag, but hopefully it’ll get accepted properly sometime soon and we’ll finally be able to have cool zero-JS stuff!
Tech bullshit aside; I was able to do gardening in the middle of the week thanks to a clear spot in the weather. Got some much needed weeding done as a bunch had sprung up thanks to all the rain, and some tiny tomatoes have started appearing on the plants which is great! Hopefully the larger tomatoes turn out better compared to last time round; I actually bought proper stakes for them so it should be good! The lettuces are getting nice and big too, might be time to harvest at least one of them soon!
No featured song this week, but I have been rewatching (again) Citation Needed while doing things, so I’ll leave you all with that.